Are K-Pop Books The Next Hot Publishing Trend In 2023?
After blazing a trail through the global music mainstream, K-Pop is now branching into other media, including Hollywood films, television series, webtoons, and novels.
Young adult K-Pop romances (Once Upon a K-Prom by Kat Cho, XOXO by Axie Oh) and trainee-to-idol journeys (Shine by Jessica Jung, I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee) have been climbing best-sellers lists, but is this just the start of a new bookish trend?
What would you do if the world’s biggest K-pop star asked you to prom?
— Once Upon a K-Prom summary, GoodReads
The majority of K-Pop books fall into commercial fiction categories, but debuting author Esther Yi is giving fandom culture a literary twist in her novel Y/N. This surrealistic, fever dream of a story follows a Korean American woman living in Berlin who embarks on “a hilarious, high-concept journey of literary self-destruction” to track down her bias, Moon.
Y/N will hit shelves on March 21, 2023. Until then, you can get your K-Pop fix with these reads:
